ELIZABETH. Born at the old homestead, near Ashland, Ohio, May 8, 1841. Her advanced education was botained at Ashland; Olome Seminary at Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, under the care of Mrs. Rev. John French; and at the Vermillion Institute, Hayesville, Ohio, where she graduated March 22, 1865. Her marriage to REV. JAMES PATTERSON FINNEY was solemnized at Hayesville on the evening of the day on which her graduation took place. Her husband was born at Mount Pleasant, Jefferson County, Ohio, February 27, 1837. He is the son of William and Jane (Patterson) Finney. Mr. Finney obtained his college education at Westminster College, New Wilmington, Pennsylvania, graduating in 1861. His theological studies were pursued at the Allegheny Seminary of the United Presbyterian Church. He was licensed to preach by the United Presbyterian Presbytery of Mansfield, April 19, 1865, and ordained in Indiana by the Presbytery of Wabash, November 15, 1866. His work in the ministry has been very extensively that of the home missionary and largely in Northwestern Kansas. He and his devoted wife know well what it is to put up cheerfully with all kinds of accommodations, when such are as cheefully given, and are the best that can be afforded. He held the position of stated supply, at Jamestown, Kansas, from 1867 to 1871. He was settled as pastor at Unity, Adams County, Ohio, from October, 1871, to August 23, 1876. (For his connection with "Finney tragedy,´in 1877, see statements under the head of Mrs. Sarah Finney.) He returned to Kansas in June, 1879, having charge of the Hopewell congregation until the fall of 1890, when he removed to Tarkio, Missouri, for the purpose of giving all his children the opportunity of a good college education. Rev. J.P. Finney has been quite successful in his ministerial work, whether as pastor or home missionary. His life work has certainly not been in vain. Since his removal to Tarkio, he has been engaged the greater portion of the time in ministerial labor, in which he takes great delight.
Mrs. Finney has ever proved herself an efficient worker in the church, and a wise couselor in the household. She has for many years been an active, deeply interested member of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, and a decided friend of female suffrage. With the saloon and its upholders she has but little patience and no sympathy. Her children are very much attached to her, as well they may be, since she has so devotedly given herself to their true and highest interests, both for this life and the life to come—the home below and the home above.
SOURCE: Thompson, Rev. Samuel Findley (1828-1912), The Thompson-Given Families; 1898; privately published, Oxford, Ohio. (Available on microfilm at the Family History Library, Salt Lake City, FHL # 1402788.)
Mrs. Finney has ever proved herself an efficient worker in the church, and a wise couselor in the household. She has for many years been an active, deeply interested member of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, and a decided friend of female suffrage. With the saloon and its upholders she has but little patience and no sympathy. Her children are very much attached to her, as well they may be, since she has so devotedly given herself to their true and highest interests, both for this life and the life to come—the home below and the home above.
SOURCE: Thompson, Rev. Samuel Findley (1828-1912), The Thompson-Given Families; 1898; privately published, Oxford, Ohio. (Available on microfilm at the Family History Library, Salt Lake City, FHL # 1402788.)
ELIZABETH. Born at the old homestead, near Ashland, Ohio, May 8, 1841. Her advanced education was botained at Ashland; Olome Seminary at Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, under the care of Mrs. Rev. John French; and at the Vermillion Institute, Hayesville, Ohio, where she graduated March 22, 1865. Her marriage to REV. JAMES PATTERSON FINNEY was solemnized at Hayesville on the evening of the day on which her graduation took place. Her husband was born at Mount Pleasant, Jefferson County, Ohio, February 27, 1837. He is the son of William and Jane (Patterson) Finney. Mr. Finney obtained his college education at Westminster College, New Wilmington, Pennsylvania, graduating in 1861. His theological studies were pursued at the Allegheny Seminary of the United Presbyterian Church. He was licensed to preach by the United Presbyterian Presbytery of Mansfield, April 19, 1865, and ordained in Indiana by the Presbytery of Wabash, November 15, 1866. His work in the ministry has been very extensively that of the home missionary and largely in Northwestern Kansas. He and his devoted wife know well what it is to put up cheerfully with all kinds of accommodations, when such are as cheefully given, and are the best that can be afforded. He held the position of stated supply, at Jamestown, Kansas, from 1867 to 1871. He was settled as pastor at Unity, Adams County, Ohio, from October, 1871, to August 23, 1876. (For his connection with "Finney tragedy,´in 1877, see statements under the head of Mrs. Sarah Finney.) He returned to Kansas in June, 1879, having charge of the Hopewell congregation until the fall of 1890, when he removed to Tarkio, Missouri, for the purpose of giving all his children the opportunity of a good college education. Rev. J.P. Finney has been quite successful in his ministerial work, whether as pastor or home missionary. His life work has certainly not been in vain. Since his removal to Tarkio, he has been engaged the greater portion of the time in ministerial labor, in which he takes great delight.
Mrs. Finney has ever proved herself an efficient worker in the church, and a wise couselor in the household. She has for many years been an active, deeply interested member of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, and a decided friend of female suffrage. With the saloon and its upholders she has but little patience and no sympathy. Her children are very much attached to her, as well they may be, since she has so devotedly given herself to their true and highest interests, both for this life and the life to come—the home below and the home above.
SOURCE: Thompson, Rev. Samuel Findley (1828-1912), The Thompson-Given Families; 1898; privately published, Oxford, Ohio. (Available on microfilm at the Family History Library, Salt Lake City, FHL # 1402788.)
Mrs. Finney has ever proved herself an efficient worker in the church, and a wise couselor in the household. She has for many years been an active, deeply interested member of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, and a decided friend of female suffrage. With the saloon and its upholders she has but little patience and no sympathy. Her children are very much attached to her, as well they may be, since she has so devotedly given herself to their true and highest interests, both for this life and the life to come—the home below and the home above.
SOURCE: Thompson, Rev. Samuel Findley (1828-1912), The Thompson-Given Families; 1898; privately published, Oxford, Ohio. (Available on microfilm at the Family History Library, Salt Lake City, FHL # 1402788.)
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